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Placement Guide

  • Career Advice
  • February 19, 2021
  • by Orlagh Claire

Five Phone Interview Tips to Succeed to the Next Interview

Phone interviews are never my favourite form of interviewing, but it was my first point of contact with my placement

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  • Career Advice
  • October 26, 2020
  • by Orlagh Claire

How to Deal With Job Rejection

We’ve all been there. Sometimes it’s a Dear John letter, sometimes it’s personal feedback and sometimes it’s just radio silence

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  • Friday Five
  • June 7, 2019
  • by Orlagh Claire

Five Reasons to do a Placement Year

This post originally appeared on StudentJobUk, which you can read here. Last year I undertook a placement year in London, as

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  • Placement Profiles
  • June 5, 2019
  • by Megan Bryant

Guest Post: What It’s Like to Intern in Amsterdam

This article was written by Megan Bryant, an Online Marketer for StudentJob UK.  A little over a year ago, I

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  • Placement Guide
  • October 31, 2018
  • by Orlagh Claire

#PlacementSeries: How to Ace the Interview

I started this #PlacementSeries last year, writing posts about cover letters, CVs, when and where to start looking etc. –

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  • Placement Guide
  • July 24, 2018
  • by Orlagh Claire

How to Make the Most of Your Placement Year

Second post of the week. So far, so good. Just three more days to go! For this one I thought

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  • Placement Guide
  • November 3, 2017
  • by Orlagh Claire

#PlacementSeries: Time to Get Organised

Now that you’ve got your CV and Cover Letters ready to go, applications are going to start opening for next

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  • Placement Guide
  • October 20, 2017
  • by Orlagh Claire

How to Write the Perfect Cover Letter

This blog post is all about how to write the perfect cover letter to secure your placement position. Pay close

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  • Placement Guide
  • October 13, 2017
  • by Orlagh Claire

#PlacementSeries: How to Make Your CV Stand Out

The dreaded CV. A mundane task for the best of us. How do we convey how amazing we are by

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  • Placement Guide
  • October 6, 2017
  • by Orlagh Claire

#PlacementSeries: When and Where to Start Looking

This started out as one blog post about securing a year-long placement, however I realised once I had started on

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